"Michael Cash" <mikecash@sunfield.ne.jp>, haber iletisinde sunlari
yazdi:mdu6rv4kud148c4du9dbsle61ippgp1h6i@4ax.com...
> On 12 Nov 2003 23:17:10 -0800, Brett Robson <jet_boy@deja.com> belched
> the alphabet and kept on going with:
>
> >On 12 Nov 2003 22:55:27 -0800, Ken Yasumoto-Nicolson  ...
> >>
> >>We just got our monthly "fact" sheet from our health and safety
> >>committee, and from our resident quack, we got some advice on drinking
> >>limits. Translating roughly, it says:
> >>
> >>If you drink over 60-80 grammes of ethanol (over 3-4 sake pottery
> >>thingies I've forgotton the word for; over 3-4 bottles of beer (660ml
> >>size implied by clip-art); or over 3-4 doubles) per day, there's a
> >>high possibility (ka'nosei ga takai) of "fatty liver" (don't know the
> >>proper term!)
> >>
> >>Over 100-120 grammes, for over 10-15 years, it's possible (ka'nosei ga
> >>aru) to get liver fibrosis (cirrhosis? kan-sen'i-sho).
> >>
> >
> >Do Japanese commonly drink that much?
>
> Yes.
>
> Alcohol is the social grease that this country runs on. Without it,
> they would have killed each other off entirely long ago.
>

Minamisan, an awfully interesting friend of mine from Osaka once said: take
three things; namely booz, women and pachinko away from Japanese men. And
this country will collapse. But it is true for all countries isn't it?